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Friday, May 15, 2015

All Of Her Tattoos Have Wings - heather hughes is Our Tattooed Poet of the Week

Our next Tattooed Poet of the Week is heather hughes. She is sharing this tattoo:

heather tells us:

"I have four tattoos (at the moment), and of course I chose one that's
difficult to photograph to send: a dragon silhouette on my left ribcage.
The ink was done at Chameleon in Cambridge, MA, and I went there with 3
other poet friends who were also getting work. The art is based on
drawings by Wayne Anderson that are featured in Peter Dickinson's book
THE FLIGHT OF DRAGONS.

I developed an obsession with fantasy, and
dragons in particular, largely because of an 80s Rankin & Bass
animated adaptation (which I still deeply love). When I went into the
tattoo shop, I thought I was going to get this design much smaller, and
on my left forearm. Instead, I walked out with a dragon next to my
heart. I was coming out of a fragile headspace and had only recently
recommitted myself to making art. My dragon reminds me that I can be
fierce, that I can protect what matters most, that I can continue to
believe in what seems impossible. He's found his way into a poem. And I
expect that someday I will have another dragon tattoo to keep him
company."

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